The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Highlight

She sees CCPU as a part of the “cosmopolitan” future of unions, an everyone-in group embodying the ideal of solidarity in a world that seems to be everywhere teetering on the edge of socialism or fascism. This is the idea of unions as a tool for political change: a power center that sits outside of political parties, changing people themselves through democratic participation, forming a bulwark against the far right’s temptations for the working class.